CD in digipack with 12 page booklet
- Lost 1969 classic
- Long-awaited reissue
- Full colour 12 page booklet
- Detailed background notes
- Rare images
- Includes two non-album bonus tracks, The Bitterness of Death and Make Me or Break Me
Ottilie Patterson had been a celebrated jazz and blues singer since the 1950s, but enormously expanded her repertoire with this July 1969 release. Taking in a range of songs ancient and modern, set to meticulous orchestral arrangements by Richard Hill, it touches on folk, funk, pop and more and adds up to a powerful and moving statement of her esoteric personality. It has long-awaited first reissue here, together with detailed background notes and rare images.
Track listing:
- Song Of Solomon
- The Orphan
- Latin Drinking Song
- Please Accept My Apologies, Mrs. Pankhurst
- Why So Pale And Wan
- Helen Of Kirkconnell
- The Sound Of The Door As It Closes
- Spring Song
- The Bitterness Of Death
- Ad Uxorem
- Hey, Ho, The Wind And The Rain
- It Was A Lover And His Lass
- Sonnet No. 8
- Mrs. Pankhurst Returns
- The Bitterness Of Death (45 version)
- Make Me Or Break Me (unreleased demo)
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